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by eduardordm 4898 days ago
Nice heads up. It seems that most newbie entrepreneurs don't really want to get their hands dirty (which is obviously not programming).

Yet, success is a very abstract concept. With that in mind I don't think that, in general, success is rare. Failure and success are both abundant. A single outcome can be a success and failure, depending on what is your baseline.

For example, when I built a small financial firm my goal was to build something cool AND get bloody rich. I failed on that. Yet, we have millions of customers right now. My dream of retiring before 30 to work for fun didn't work out.